KF 9995 KARVARI 1049 * 2021 ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. ADVERTISEMENT. ALL the Speeches in this collection were revised by Mr. Canning. The London edition of his Speeches consists of six octavo volumes, the first of which contains a copious and authentic memoir of his life. It was originally the design of the American editor to furnish an entirely new biography, more minute and comprehensive, with critical notes on the oratory and political career of Mr. Canning. But he has found the proper execution of this plan impracticable, consistently with the limits of this publication, and the paramount object of including all the master-pieces of the orator, and the specimens which form the Appendix. He has added to the speeches adopted, some of Canning's early writings, and remarkable passages of the other principal speeches. The matter preferred is thought to be that which, from various considerations, is most eligible for the American meridian. Mr. Canning frequently took part in the debates on the Catholic question, and always with signal superiority of eloquence and liberality of sentiment. A sufficient specimen is given in this volume of his powers and feelings on that subject. A consummate lawyer might be proud of his argument on the Roman Catholic Peers' bill, which is indeed admirable through 3 |